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Underlying Criminal Offense

The base criminal act to which a domestic violence enhancement must be attached.

What Right Law Group attorneys say

let's talk about domestic violence charges in colorado the first thing to understand with domestic violence charges is there is no charge of domestic violence that can just be applied there has to be an underlying criminal offense in order for domestic violence to be applied to it in other words the charge of domestic violence is what we call a sentence enhancer or an enhancement
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let's talk about domestic violence charges in colorado the first thing to understand with domestic violence charges is t...

Alexis explains: "let's talk about domestic violence charges in colorado the first thing to understand with domestic violence charges is there is no charge of domestic violence that can just be applied there has to be an underlying criminal offense in order for domestic violence to be applied to it in other words the charge of domestic violence is what we call a sentence enhancer or an enhancement"

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What clients say

The situation

Got into a DV case because of an ex I let back in the home and made my life very hard

What changed

he fought hard for me

The result

they dismissed the whole case

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What changed

their belief of my side and story and their knowledge in the legal system they were able to get my case dismissed

The result

get my case dismissed

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